[H-GEN] undo spam assasin

[Tony Nugent]

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On Fri Jul 12 2002 at 20:01, Tony Bilbrough wrote:

> I just can't figure out where the Web Bugs and Porn is, that it finds in
> the news letter!
> Has any one else had this glich/problem?
> This is what I got...
> Subject:
>           *****SPAM***** Under the Brim | Red Hat | July 2002
>      Date:           Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:06:49 -0700
>      From:           "Red Hat" <RedHat at redhat.rsc03.com>
>  Reply-To:           "Red Hat" <redhat at redhat.com>

Harharhar!!!  *exactly* the same thing just happened to me!  :-)

Their newsletter got an SA rating here of 9.9, quite high.  You came
in with a score of 11.3 (of 6.2 required).  Someone should whisper
in their ear about this :)   (5.0 is the default spam score, I use
7.0 which seems to be more "gentle" at the expense of letting a few
through).

It's not the first time I have found their newsletter in the spam
basket.  Real Audio's mass mailouts and a couple of other things I'm
subscribed to also tend to end up there at times.  There's a
~/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.db file that these addresses can be
added to, but the rsc03.com domain for this particular mailout looks
like a new one.  I've had to resort to whitelisting things like the
linux-announce digest... mailing lists in particular tend to be an
occasional unfortunate victim of spam filtering due to the nature of
the beast.

One big disappointment... spamassassin completely misses the
"nigerian gold transfers into your bank account" type of spam, pity
that :)   Otherwise it does a very good job, essential armoury
nowdays.  I've had 320 spams filtered with it since early April.

Cheers
Tony

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